Referenced By / The Pink Panther

Anime & Manga

• The Lupin III episode "Black Panther" is a homage to the Pink Panther, featuring an emerald with a black panther dancing in it, and a Clouseau-like police inspector who dogs Lupin alongside Zenigata.

Films - Live-Action

• Battleship: The Pink Panther theme is heard as Alex goes looking for a chicken burrito.
• Jill from Blood Harvest has a stuffed Pink Panther in her room.
• In Molly (1983), there's a large stuffed Pink Panther in Maxie's room at Aunt Jenny's house.

Live-Action TV

• El Chapulín Colorado: The episode "La función debe continuar" has el Chapulín visiting an old movie studio where one of the movies filmed was a Western starring the Pink Panther (portrayed by Ramón Valdés during the scene).
• In the Fantasy Island episode "Lady of the Evening/The Racer", a man bumps into a woman, spilling her drink. He jokes, "Inspector Clouseau, at your service."
• In the first Mr. Bean episode, Mr. Bean places a Pink Panther toy on his desk during the exam.
• On The Price Is Right, the Pink Panther theme was the original cue for the Safe Crackers game.

Music

• The title of the 1986 R.E.M. album Lifes Rich Pageant was derived from this exchange between Clouseau and Maria Gambrelli in A Shot in the Dark:
  Maria: You should get out of these clothes immediately! You'll catch your death of pneumonia, you will.
  Clouseau: Yes, I suppose I probably will. But it's all part of life's rich pageant, you know.

Web Video

• Console Wars: In one episode, Pat and Dan see whether the SNES or the Sega Genesis had the better version of Pink Goes to Hollywood.

Western Animation

• Animaniacs (1993): In "Back in Style", which depicts the shuttering of the Warner Bros. Cartoon Department early 1960s, Friz Freleng is shown creating a "Gray Panther" character by slightly altering a drawing of Bugs Bunny.
• Dexter's Laboratory: The episode "A Silent Cartoon" is a spoof of The Pink Phink, in which a pink-colored Dee Dee turns a white Dexter's blue lab pink.
• Family Guy:
  • A cutaway from "The Former Life of Brian" shows the Pink Panther dying in the hospital, with his wife by his side, thanks to inhaling so much Owens-Corning fiberglass insulation (of which he was their mascot).
  • In "Halloween on Spooner Street", after Brian gets spray-painted pink by some bullies, the Pink Panther appears to offer his sympathies.
    Panther: Hey, how ya doin'? First day bein' pink?
    Brian: Yeah.
    Panther: Welcome to Hell.
    (he walks off as the sting from his theme music plays)
• Jackie Chan Adventures: In "Enter The Viper", Viper is introduced trying to steal the Pink Puma diamond from a New York museum at the same time Jackie is trying to get the snake talisman. They mistakenly take one another's bags and Viper gets the talisman while Jackie accidentally takes the diamond and is arrested for it.
• Robot Chicken:
  • A sketch from "Triple Hot Dog Sandwich on Wheat", which focuses on the the adverse effects of smoking on cartoon characters, opens with the Pink Panther going into a coughing fit while smoking his cigarette and being promptly diagnosed with emphysema.
    Doctor: I hear you're one of the greatest burglars in the world. Well, congratulations, you've stolen 30 healthy years from yourself.
  • A sketch from "Gracie Purgatory in: That's How You Get Hemorrhoids" has the Pink Panther challenging T'Challa for the title of Black Panther.
• The Simpsons:
  • In "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", Bart testifies as a witness to he alleged beating of a French waiter, claiming he was not beaten, but simply hurt himself accidentally. The plaintiff protests that he's not "a clumsy, Clouseau-esque waiter"... right before tripping on a chair, out the window, and into a truck full of mousetraps.
  • Henry Mancini's theme music can be heard in "Little Girl in the Big Ten" and "Fat Man and Little Boy".
  • In "This Little Wiggy", when Bart and Ralph Wiggum sneak into Ralph's parents' room to steal Chief Wiggum's skeleton key, we see that the Wiggums were watching The Return Of The Pink Panther Returns.
• The Wrong Trousers: The diamond robbery scene from “The Return of…” is parodied.